How will the financial crisis affect the South, and how can European Aid help developing countries face this challenge?

Author : ID4D (multi-author)

Exchange with the members of the blog, live from the 3rd edition of the European Development Days, Europe’s first meeting of development cooperation practitioners and decision-makers that will take place in Strasbourg on the 15-17 November. On this occasion, laptop computer will be available on the French Presidency stand so you will be able to participate to the debate. The members present in Strasbourg will come to the stand to react in live to your comments. Come and share your thoughts on the topic.

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Fighting climate change for the sake of the poor

Author : Rajendra Kumar Pachauri

Over the last 18 months or so there has been a major surge in the spread of public understanding on the subject of climate change, particularly in respect of human actions being a cause for changes in the earth’s climate system. However, this increase in awareness has not yet translated into action at the global level to bring about a reduction in the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), the increased concentration of which has now increasingly affected the earth’s climate. The impacts of climate change are particularly harmful for some of the poorest societies on earth.

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